13 Words in Highland Treasure

13 Words from Amanda Scott’s Highland Treasure & their definition in the Oxford English Dictionary 1. machicolation– An opening between the corbels which support a projecting defensive parapet, or in the floor of a gallery or the roof of a portal, through which combustibles, molten lead, stones, etc., could be dropped upon assailants below. Also: a projecting structure having a range of such openings. 2. yett– An opening in a wall, made for the purpose of entrance and exit, and capable of being closed by a movable barrier, the existence of which is usually implied; said with reference to a city or other enclosure, or the enclosure-wall of a large building, formerly also to the bulding itself, where door or doors is now commonly employed. 3. forbye– In preference to, before, beyond. 4. escarpment– Ground cut into the form of an escarp for the purpose of fortification. 5. antecedents-A thing or circumstance which goes before or precedes in time or order; often also implying causal relation with its consequent. or The events of a person’s bygone history (usually, as affecting the postion now to be accorded him); also used of institutions, etc. 6. confluence-A flowing together; the junction and union of two or more streams or moving fluids. 7. bracken-A fern 8. desiccated-Deprived or freed of moisture; dried; (of food) dried for preservation. 9. paduasoy-a strong, rich, silk fabric, usually slightly corded or embossed, popular in the 18th and early 19th centuries. 10. camlet-A name originally applied to some beautiful and costly eastern fabric, afterwards to imitations and substitutes the nature of which has changed many times over. ‘A kind of stuff originally made by a mixture of silk and camel’s hair; it is now made with wool and silk 11. tambour– A species of embroidery in which patterns are worked with a needle of peculiar form on material stretched in a tambour-frame; now superseded by pattern-weaving 12. dimity-A stout cotton fabric, woven with raised stripes or fancy figures; usually employed undyed for beds and bedroom hangings, and sometimes for garments. 13. prodigiously-Portentously, ominously or Wonderfully, astonishingly; in colloquial use (hyperbolically), Exceedingly, immensely Leave your Link and I’ll add you here. 1. Chez le laquet! 2. It’s a Raggedy Life 3. Caylynn’s Contemplations 4. Strange Dark Gypsy Girl 5. A Little Cheese with… 6. Writing Aspirations 7. Dane Bramage 8. West of Mars 9. Racy Thoughts 10. Jaci Burton 11. Christine d’Abo 12. John

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